Science|Business Reporting

The Square Kilometre Array project's board has announced a timetable and procedure for making the decision on who gets to host the world's largest radio telescope

The Third Annual Worldview Bio-Innovation Scorecard report, published by Scientific American, points to progress in Europe

Intellectual property generated by 37 hospitals brought in revenues of €17 million and formed the basis of five start-ups

A study of financial results of companies that participated Eureka, compared to similar companies which did not, demonstrates the benefits of these collaborative projects

A fund has been launched to back energy efficiency projects across Europe. Public investment of €265 million will be used to pull in private money, with the aim of reaching €800 million in total

The 2011 Global Innovation Index complied by the business School INSEAD puts Switzerland in the number one spot, with Sweden second and Singapore third

Past winners of the Science|Business ACES award alumni continue to score. The international business school INSEAD in Fontainebleau is studying the 45 university spinouts to indentify the success factors for high tech spin outs in Europe

An expert group set up by the Commission has set out guidelines on giving European industry a competitive edge in deploying Key Enabling Technologies (KETs)

Thirteen photonics research projects are being launched in high-speed fibre broadband networks with the aim of developing technologies to deliver super fast internet speeds to the home in excess of 1 Gigabit per second

The pharma industry spent less on drug R&D last year than at any time in the last three years and there was a fall in the number of drugs getting approval, and of products in early-stage trials